With every clownish gaffe, Trump strips back the façade of American imperalism, revealing in newly bumbling ways a far older tale – one of empire, bloodshed and destruction. It's no laughing matter.
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Recently, a memory of my son as a small boy came back to me. He was, in those days, terrified of clowns. Something about their strange, mask-like, painted faces unnerved him utterly, chilled him to the bone. To the rest of us, they were comic, but to him – or so I came to imagine anyway – they were emanations from hell.
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